Mission 6: Feasibility Study of Product Classification Engine¶

1. Introduction¶

Objective: Evaluate the feasibility of automatic product classification using text descriptions and images for an e-commerce marketplace.

2. Data Overview¶

2.1 Components¶

Modality Description Source Notes
Images Product photos (RGB) Flipkart dataset Variable resolutions; resized to 224×224
Text Product titles / descriptions (English) Metadata CSV Cleaned: lowercased, punctuation stripped, stopwords partially removed
Labels Product category identifiers Metadata CSV Multi-class (N classes)
In [1]:
# Configure Plotly to properly render in HTML exports
import plotly.io as pio

# Set the renderer for notebook display
pio.renderers.default = "notebook"

# Configure global theme for consistent appearance
pio.templates.default = "plotly_white"

import os
# Set environment variable to disable oneDNN optimizations to avoid numerical differences
os.environ['TF_ENABLE_ONEDNN_OPTS'] = '0'

# Import tqdm for progress bars
from tqdm.notebook import tqdm
In [2]:
import pandas as pd
import glob

# Read all CSV files from dataset/Flipkart directory with glob
csv_files = glob.glob('dataset/Flipkart/flipkart*.csv')

# Import the CSV files into a dataframe
df = pd.read_csv(csv_files[0])

# Display first few rows
df.head()
Out[2]:
uniq_id crawl_timestamp product_url product_name product_category_tree pid retail_price discounted_price image is_FK_Advantage_product description product_rating overall_rating brand product_specifications
0 55b85ea15a1536d46b7190ad6fff8ce7 2016-04-30 03:22:56 +0000 http://www.flipkart.com/elegance-polyester-mul... Elegance Polyester Multicolor Abstract Eyelet ... ["Home Furnishing >> Curtains & Accessories >>... CRNEG7BKMFFYHQ8Z 1899.0 899.0 55b85ea15a1536d46b7190ad6fff8ce7.jpg False Key Features of Elegance Polyester Multicolor ... No rating available No rating available Elegance {"product_specification"=>[{"key"=>"Brand", "v...
1 7b72c92c2f6c40268628ec5f14c6d590 2016-04-30 03:22:56 +0000 http://www.flipkart.com/sathiyas-cotton-bath-t... Sathiyas Cotton Bath Towel ["Baby Care >> Baby Bath & Skin >> Baby Bath T... BTWEGFZHGBXPHZUH 600.0 449.0 7b72c92c2f6c40268628ec5f14c6d590.jpg False Specifications of Sathiyas Cotton Bath Towel (... No rating available No rating available Sathiyas {"product_specification"=>[{"key"=>"Machine Wa...
2 64d5d4a258243731dc7bbb1eef49ad74 2016-04-30 03:22:56 +0000 http://www.flipkart.com/eurospa-cotton-terry-f... Eurospa Cotton Terry Face Towel Set ["Baby Care >> Baby Bath & Skin >> Baby Bath T... BTWEG6SHXTDB2A2Y NaN NaN 64d5d4a258243731dc7bbb1eef49ad74.jpg False Key Features of Eurospa Cotton Terry Face Towe... No rating available No rating available Eurospa {"product_specification"=>[{"key"=>"Material",...
3 d4684dcdc759dd9cdf41504698d737d8 2016-06-20 08:49:52 +0000 http://www.flipkart.com/santosh-royal-fashion-... SANTOSH ROYAL FASHION Cotton Printed King size... ["Home Furnishing >> Bed Linen >> Bedsheets >>... BDSEJT9UQWHDUBH4 2699.0 1299.0 d4684dcdc759dd9cdf41504698d737d8.jpg False Key Features of SANTOSH ROYAL FASHION Cotton P... No rating available No rating available SANTOSH ROYAL FASHION {"product_specification"=>[{"key"=>"Brand", "v...
4 6325b6870c54cd47be6ebfbffa620ec7 2016-06-20 08:49:52 +0000 http://www.flipkart.com/jaipur-print-cotton-fl... Jaipur Print Cotton Floral King sized Double B... ["Home Furnishing >> Bed Linen >> Bedsheets >>... BDSEJTHNGWVGWWQU 2599.0 698.0 6325b6870c54cd47be6ebfbffa620ec7.jpg False Key Features of Jaipur Print Cotton Floral Kin... No rating available No rating available Jaipur Print {"product_specification"=>[{"key"=>"Machine Wa...

2.2 Basic Statistics¶

In [3]:
from src.classes.analyze_value_specifications import SpecificationsValueAnalyzer

analyzer = SpecificationsValueAnalyzer(df)
value_analysis = analyzer.get_top_values(top_keys=5, top_values=5)
value_analysis
Out[3]:
key value count percentage total_occurrences
0 Type Analog 123 16.90 728
1 Type Mug 74 10.16 728
2 Type Ethnic 56 7.69 728
3 Type Wireless Without modem 27 3.71 728
4 Type Religious Idols 26 3.57 728
5 Brand Lapguard 11 1.94 568
6 Brand PRINT SHAPES 11 1.94 568
7 Brand Lal Haveli 10 1.76 568
8 Brand Raymond 8 1.41 568
9 Brand Aroma Comfort 8 1.41 568
10 Sales Package 1 Mug 49 9.59 511
11 Sales Package 1 Showpiece Figurine 44 8.61 511
12 Sales Package 1 mug 22 4.31 511
13 Sales Package Blanket 12 2.35 511
14 Sales Package 1 Laptop Adapter 10 1.96 511
15 Color Multicolor 98 19.41 505
16 Color Black 73 14.46 505
17 Color White 42 8.32 505
18 Color Blue 31 6.14 505
19 Color Gold 28 5.54 505
20 Ideal For Men 88 18.80 468
21 Ideal For Women 75 16.03 468
22 Ideal For Men, Women 47 10.04 468
23 Ideal For Baby Girl's 46 9.83 468
24 Ideal For Men and Women 35 7.48 468

2.3 Class Balance (Post-Filtering)¶

In [4]:
# Create a radial icicle chart to visualize the top values
fig = analyzer.create_radial_icicle_chart(top_keys=10, top_values=20)
fig.show()
In [5]:
from src.classes.analyze_category_tree import CategoryTreeAnalyzer

# Create analyzer instance with your dataframe
category_analyzer = CategoryTreeAnalyzer(df)

# Create and display the radial category chart
fig = category_analyzer.create_radial_category_chart(max_depth=9)
fig.show()

3. Basic NLP Classification Feasibility Study¶

3.1 Text Preprocessing¶

Steps:

  • Clean text data
  • Remove stopwords
  • Perform stemming/lemmatization
  • Handle special characters
In [6]:
# Import TextPreprocessor class
from src.classes.preprocess_text import TextPreprocessor

# Create processor instance
processor = TextPreprocessor()

# 1. Demonstrate functions with a clear example sentence
print("🔍 TEXT PREPROCESSING DEMONSTRATION")
print("=" * 50)

test_sentence = "To be or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them?"

print(f"Original: '{test_sentence}'")
print(f"Tokenized: {processor.tokenize_sentence(test_sentence)}")
print(f"Stemmed: '{processor.stem_sentence(test_sentence)}'")
print(f"Lemmatized: '{processor.lemmatize_sentence(test_sentence)}'")
print(f"Fully preprocessed: '{processor.preprocess(test_sentence)}'")

# 2. Process the DataFrame columns efficiently
print("\n🔄 APPLYING TO DATASET")
print("=" * 50)

# Apply preprocessing to product names
df['product_name_lemmatized'] = df['product_name'].apply(processor.preprocess)
df['product_name_stemmed'] = df['product_name'].apply(processor.stem_text)
df['product_category'] = df['product_category_tree'].apply(processor.extract_top_category)

# 3. Show a few examples of the transformations
print("\n📋 TRANSFORMATION EXAMPLES")
print("=" * 50)
comparison_data = []

for i in range(min(5, len(df))):
    original = df['product_name'].iloc[i]
    lemmatized = df['product_name_lemmatized'].iloc[i]
    stemmed = df['product_name_stemmed'].iloc[i]
    
    # Truncate long examples for display
    max_len = 50
    orig_display = original[:max_len] + ('...' if len(original) > max_len else '')
    lem_display = lemmatized[:max_len] + ('...' if len(lemmatized) > max_len else '')
    stem_display = stemmed[:max_len] + ('...' if len(stemmed) > max_len else '')
    
    comparison_data.append({
        'Original': orig_display,
        'Lemmatized': lem_display,
        'Stemmed': stem_display
    })

comparison_df = pd.DataFrame(comparison_data)
display(comparison_df)

# 4. Print summary statistics
print("\n📊 PREPROCESSING STATISTICS")
print("=" * 50)
total_words_before = df['product_name'].str.split().str.len().sum()
total_words_lemmatized = df['product_name_lemmatized'].str.split().str.len().sum()
total_words_stemmed = df['product_name_stemmed'].str.split().str.len().sum()

lem_reduction = ((total_words_before - total_words_lemmatized) / total_words_before) * 100
stem_reduction = ((total_words_before - total_words_stemmed) / total_words_before) * 100

print(f"Total words before processing: {total_words_before:,}")
print(f"Words after lemmatization: {total_words_lemmatized:,} ({lem_reduction:.1f}% reduction)")
print(f"Words after stemming: {total_words_stemmed:,} ({stem_reduction:.1f}% reduction)")
print(f"Unique categories extracted: {df['product_category'].nunique()}")

# Display additional analysis
print("\n📈 WORD REDUCTION ANALYSIS")
print("=" * 50)
print(f"Total words removed by lemmatization: {total_words_before - total_words_lemmatized:,}")
print(f"Total words removed by stemming: {total_words_before - total_words_stemmed:,}")
print(f"Stemming vs. lemmatization difference: {total_words_lemmatized - total_words_stemmed:,} words")
print(f"Stemming provides additional {stem_reduction - lem_reduction:.1f}% reduction over lemmatization")

# Show average words per product
avg_words_before = df['product_name'].str.split().str.len().mean()
avg_words_lemmatized = df['product_name_lemmatized'].str.split().str.len().mean()
avg_words_stemmed = df['product_name_stemmed'].str.split().str.len().mean()

print(f"\nAverage words per product name:")
print(f"  - Before preprocessing: {avg_words_before:.1f}")
print(f"  - After lemmatization: {avg_words_lemmatized:.1f}")
print(f"  - After stemming: {avg_words_stemmed:.1f}")
🔍 TEXT PREPROCESSING DEMONSTRATION
==================================================
Original: 'To be or not to be, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them?'
Tokenized: ['To', 'be', 'or', 'not', 'to', 'be', ',', 'that', 'is', 'the', 'question', ':', 'whether', "'t", 'is', 'nobler', 'in', 'the', 'mind', 'to', 'suffer', 'the', 'slings', 'and', 'arrows', 'of', 'outrageous', 'fortune', ',', 'or', 'to', 'take', 'arms', 'against', 'a', 'sea', 'of', 'troubles', 'and', ',', 'by', 'opposing', ',', 'end', 'them', '?']
Stemmed: 'to be or not to be that is the question whether ti nobler in the mind to suffer the sling and arrow of outrag fortun or to take arm against a sea of troubl and by oppos end them'
Lemmatized: 'to be or not to be that is the question whether ti nobler in the mind to suffer the sling and arrow of outrageous fortune or to take arm against a sea of trouble and by opposing end them'
Fully preprocessed: 'question whether ti nobler mind suffer sling arrow outrageous fortune take arm sea trouble opposing end'

🔄 APPLYING TO DATASET
==================================================
📋 TRANSFORMATION EXAMPLES
==================================================
Original Lemmatized Stemmed
0 Elegance Polyester Multicolor Abstract Eyelet ... elegance polyester multicolor abstract eyelet ... eleg polyest multicolor abstract eyelet door c...
1 Sathiyas Cotton Bath Towel sathiyas cotton bath towel sathiya cotton bath towel
2 Eurospa Cotton Terry Face Towel Set eurospa cotton terry face towel set eurospa cotton terri face towel set
3 SANTOSH ROYAL FASHION Cotton Printed King size... santosh royal fashion cotton printed king size... santosh royal fashion cotton print king size d...
4 Jaipur Print Cotton Floral King sized Double B... jaipur print cotton floral king sized double b... jaipur print cotton floral king size doubl bed...
📊 PREPROCESSING STATISTICS
==================================================
Total words before processing: 7,631
Words after lemmatization: 6,512 (14.7% reduction)
Words after stemming: 6,512 (14.7% reduction)
Unique categories extracted: 7

📈 WORD REDUCTION ANALYSIS
==================================================
Total words removed by lemmatization: 1,119
Total words removed by stemming: 1,119
Stemming vs. lemmatization difference: 0 words
Stemming provides additional 0.0% reduction over lemmatization

Average words per product name:
  - Before preprocessing: 7.3
  - After lemmatization: 6.2
  - After stemming: 6.2

3.2 Basic Text Encoding¶

Methods:

  • Bag of Words (BoW)
  • TF-IDF Vectorization
In [7]:
from src.classes.encode_text import TextEncoder

# Initialize encoder once
encoder = TextEncoder()

# Fit and transform product names
encoding_results = encoder.fit_transform(df['product_name_lemmatized'])


# For a Bag of Words cloud
bow_cloud = encoder.plot_word_cloud(use_tfidf=False, max_words=100, colormap='plasma')
bow_cloud.show()

# Create and display BoW plot
bow_fig = encoder.plot_bow_features(threshold=0.98)
print("\nBag of Words Feature Distribution:")
bow_fig.show()
Bag of Words Feature Distribution:
In [8]:
# For a TF-IDF word cloud
word_cloud = encoder.plot_word_cloud(use_tfidf=True, max_words=100, colormap='plasma')
word_cloud.show()

# Create and display TF-IDF plot
tfidf_fig = encoder.plot_tfidf_features(threshold=0.98)
print("\nTF-IDF Feature Distribution:")
tfidf_fig.show()
TF-IDF Feature Distribution:
In [9]:
# Show comparison
comparison_fig = encoder.plot_feature_comparison(threshold=0.98)
print("\nFeature Comparison:")
comparison_fig.show()

# Plot scatter comparison
scatter_fig = encoder.plot_scatter_comparison()
print("\nTF-IDF vs BoW Scatter Comparison:")
scatter_fig.show()
Feature Comparison:
TF-IDF vs BoW Scatter Comparison:

3.3 Dimensionality Reduction & Visualization¶

Analysis:

  • Apply PCA/t-SNE
  • Visualize category distribution
  • Evaluate cluster separation
In [10]:
from src.classes.reduce_dimensions import DimensionalityReducer

# Initialize reducer
reducer = DimensionalityReducer()


# Apply dimensionality reduction to TF-IDF matrix of product names
print("\nApplying PCA to product name features...")
pca_results = reducer.fit_transform_pca(encoder.tfidf_matrix)
pca_fig = reducer.plot_pca(labels=df['product_category'])
pca_fig.show()
Applying PCA to product name features...
In [11]:
print("\nApplying t-SNE to product name features...")
tsne_results = reducer.fit_transform_tsne(encoder.tfidf_matrix)
tsne_fig = reducer.plot_tsne(labels=df['product_category'])
tsne_fig.show()
Applying t-SNE to product name features...
In [12]:
# Create silhouette plot for categories
print("\nGenerating silhouette plot for product categories...")
silhouette_fig = reducer.plot_silhouette(
    encoder.tfidf_matrix, 
    df['product_category']
)
silhouette_fig.show()
Generating silhouette plot for product categories...
In [13]:
# Create intercluster distance visualization
print("\nGenerating intercluster distance visualization...")
distance_fig = reducer.plot_intercluster_distance(
    encoder.tfidf_matrix,
    df['product_category']
)
distance_fig.show()
Generating intercluster distance visualization...

3.4 Dimensionality Reduction Conclusion¶

Based on the analysis of product descriptions through TF-IDF vectorization and dimensionality reduction techniques, we can conclude that it is feasible to classify items at the first level using their sanitized names (after lemmatization and preprocessing).

Key findings:

  • The silhouette analysis shows clusters with sufficient separation to distinguish between product categories
  • The silhouette scores are significant enough for practical use in an e-commerce classification system
  • Intercluster distances between product categories range from 0.47 to 0.91, indicating substantial separation between different product types
  • The most distant categories (distance of 0.91) show clear differentiation in the feature space
  • Even the closest categories (distance of 0.47) maintain enough separation for classification purposes

This analysis confirms that text-based features from product names alone can provide a solid foundation for an automated product classification system, at least for top-level category assignment.

In [14]:
# Perform clustering on t-SNE results and evaluate against true categories
clustering_results = reducer.evaluate_clustering(
    encoder.tfidf_matrix,
    df['product_category'],
    n_clusters=7,
    use_tsne=True
)

# Get the dataframe with clusters
df_tsne = clustering_results['dataframe']

# Print the ARI score
print(f"Adjusted Rand Index: {clustering_results['ari_score']:.4f}")


# Create a heatmap visualization
heatmap_fig = reducer.plot_cluster_category_heatmap(
    clustering_results['cluster_distribution'],
    figsize=(900, 600)
)
heatmap_fig.show()
Clustering into 7 clusters...
Adjusted Rand Index: 0.3206

4. Advanced NLP Classification Feasibility Study¶

4.0 Data IP Rights & Copyright Verification¶

📋 CE8: IP Rights Verification for Text Data

This study uses product metadata (titles, descriptions) from the Flipkart e-commerce dataset for research and educational purposes only.

Copyright & IP Compliance Statement:

  • Data Source: Flipkart e-commerce marketplace (scraped public product metadata)
  • Data Type: Product names, descriptions, category metadata (non-personal information)
  • Usage Rights: Used exclusively for feasibility study research under academic fair use
  • Licensing: No proprietary intellectual property in product names/descriptions themselves
  • Third-Party Content: No copyrighted literature, movies, or brand trademarks explicitly used in classification targets
  • Disclaimer: This study does not claim ownership of product data; attribution to Flipkart (original source) is acknowledged
  • Reproducibility: Results based on publicly available metadata, not confidential/proprietary data

Implementation Note: Text preprocessing pipeline operates on anonymized product metadata only; no personal data (names, addresses, emails) is processed or retained.

4.1 Word Embeddings¶

Approaches:

  • Word2Vec Implementation
  • BERT Embeddings
  • Universal Sentence Encoder
In [15]:
import os
import ssl
import certifi

os.environ['REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE'] = certifi.where()
os.environ['SSL_CERT_FILE'] = certifi.where()


# Import the advanced embeddings class
from src.classes.advanced_embeddings import AdvancedTextEmbeddings

# Initialize the advanced embeddings class
adv_embeddings = AdvancedTextEmbeddings()

# Word2Vec Implementation
print("\n### Word2Vec Implementation")
word2vec_embeddings = adv_embeddings.fit_transform_word2vec(df['product_name_lemmatized'])
word2vec_results = adv_embeddings.compare_with_reducer(reducer, df['product_category'])

# Display Word2Vec visualizations
print("\nWord2Vec PCA Visualization:")
word2vec_results['pca_fig'].show()

print("\nWord2Vec t-SNE Visualization:")
word2vec_results['tsne_fig'].show()

print("\nWord2Vec Silhouette Analysis:")
word2vec_results['silhouette_fig'].show()

print("\nWord2Vec Cluster Analysis:")
print(f"Adjusted Rand Index: {word2vec_results['clustering_results']['ari_score']:.4f}")
word2vec_results['heatmap_fig'].show()
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### Word2Vec Implementation
Clustering into 7 clusters...

Word2Vec PCA Visualization:
Word2Vec t-SNE Visualization:
Word2Vec Silhouette Analysis:
Word2Vec Cluster Analysis:
Adjusted Rand Index: 0.3635
In [16]:
# BERT Embeddings
print("\n### BERT Embeddings")
bert_embeddings = adv_embeddings.fit_transform_bert(df['product_name_lemmatized'])
bert_results = adv_embeddings.compare_with_reducer(reducer, df['product_category'])

# Display BERT visualizations
print("\nBERT PCA Visualization:")
bert_results['pca_fig'].show()

print("\nBERT t-SNE Visualization:")
bert_results['tsne_fig'].show()

print("\nBERT Silhouette Analysis:")
bert_results['silhouette_fig'].show()

print("\nBERT Cluster Analysis:")
print(f"Adjusted Rand Index: {bert_results['clustering_results']['ari_score']:.4f}")
bert_results['heatmap_fig'].show()
### BERT Embeddings
Clustering into 7 clusters...

BERT PCA Visualization:
BERT t-SNE Visualization:
BERT Silhouette Analysis:
BERT Cluster Analysis:
Adjusted Rand Index: 0.4003
In [17]:
# Universal Sentence Encoder
print("\n### Universal Sentence Encoder")
use_embeddings = adv_embeddings.fit_transform_use(df['product_name_lemmatized'])
use_results = adv_embeddings.compare_with_reducer(reducer, df['product_category'])

# Display USE visualizations
print("\nUSE PCA Visualization:")
use_results['pca_fig'].show()

print("\nUSE t-SNE Visualization:")
use_results['tsne_fig'].show()

print("\nUSE Silhouette Analysis:")
use_results['silhouette_fig'].show()

print("\nUSE Cluster Analysis:")
print(f"Adjusted Rand Index: {use_results['clustering_results']['ari_score']:.4f}")
use_results['heatmap_fig'].show()
### Universal Sentence Encoder
   📦 Using cached model directory: /app/cache/use_model
   ⏳ Loading Universal Sentence Encoder (this is a one-time download)...
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   ✅ Model loaded successfully!
Clustering into 7 clusters...

USE PCA Visualization:
USE t-SNE Visualization:
USE Silhouette Analysis:
USE Cluster Analysis:
Adjusted Rand Index: 0.6433

4.2 Comparative Analysis¶

Evaluation:

  • Compare embedding methods
  • Analyze clustering quality
  • Assess category separation
In [18]:
from src.scripts.plot_ari_comparison import ari_comparison

# Collect ARI scores for comparison
ari_scores = {
    'TF-IDF': clustering_results['ari_score'],
    'Word2Vec': word2vec_results['clustering_results']['ari_score'],
    'BERT': bert_results['clustering_results']['ari_score'],
    'Universal Sentence Encoder': use_results['clustering_results']['ari_score']
}

# Create and display visualization
comparison_fig = ari_comparison(ari_scores)
comparison_fig.show()

5. Basic Image Processing Classification Study¶

In [19]:
import os
from src.classes.image_processor import ImageProcessor

# Initialize the image processor
image_processor = ImageProcessor(target_size=(224, 224), quality_threshold=0.8)

# Ensure sample images exist (creates them if directory doesn't exist)
image_dir = 'dataset/Flipkart/Images'
image_info = image_processor.ensure_sample_images(image_dir, num_samples=20)
print(f"📁 Found {image_info['count']} images in dataset")

# Process images (limit for demonstration)
image_paths = [os.path.join(image_dir, img) for img in image_info['available_images']]
max_images = min(1050, len(image_paths))
print(f"🖼️ Processing {max_images} images for feasibility study...")

# Process the images
processing_results = image_processor.process_image_batch(image_paths[:max_images])

# Create feature matrix from basic features
basic_feature_matrix, basic_feature_names = image_processor.create_feature_matrix(
    processing_results['basic_features']
)

# Analyze feature quality
feature_analysis = image_processor.analyze_features_quality(
    basic_feature_matrix, basic_feature_names
)

# Store results for later use
image_features_basic = basic_feature_matrix
image_processing_success = processing_results['summary']['success_rate']

# Create and display processing dashboard
processing_dashboard = image_processor.create_processing_dashboard(processing_results)
processing_dashboard.show()
📁 Found 1050 images in dataset
🖼️ Processing 1050 images for feasibility study...
Processing 1050 images...
Processing complete!
Success rate: 100.0%
Successful: 1050
Failed: 0
Created feature matrix: (1050, 208)
Feature names: 208
Created feature matrix: (1050, 208)
Feature names: 208
In [20]:
from src.scripts.plot_features_v2 import build_processing_dashboard

dashboard = build_processing_dashboard(processing_results)
dashboard.show()
In [21]:
from src.scripts.plot_basic_image_feature_extraction import run_basic_feature_demo

# Use processed images from Section 5
processed_images = processing_results['processed_images']
print(f"Using {len(processed_images)} processed images from Section 5")

demo = run_basic_feature_demo(processed_images, sample_size=10, random_seed=42)
demo['figure'].show()
print(demo['summary'])
Using 1050 processed images from Section 5
🔄 Extracting basic image features from 10 images...
✅ Feature extraction complete!

📊 Feature Extraction Summary:
   Images processed: 10
   Combined feature matrix: (10, 290)
   Feature types: 5

   🎯 Feature dimensions breakdown:
      SIFT: 128 dims (44.1%)
      LBP: 10 dims (3.4%)
      GLCM: 16 dims (5.5%)
      Gabor: 36 dims (12.4%)
      Patches: 100 dims (34.5%)

✅ Feature extraction visualization complete.
   📊 Total dimensions: 290
   🖼️ Images analyzed: 10
{'images_processed': 10, 'feature_matrix_shape': (10, 290), 'total_features': 290, 'feature_types': ['SIFT', 'LBP', 'GLCM', 'Gabor', 'Patches']}
In [22]:
from src.classes.vgg16_extractor import VGG16FeatureExtractor

# Initialize the VGG16 feature extractor
vgg16_extractor = VGG16FeatureExtractor(
    input_shape=(224, 224, 3),
    layer_name='block5_pool'
)

# Use processed images from Section 5 or create synthetic data
processed_images = processing_results['processed_images']
print(f"Using {len(processed_images)} processed images from Section 5")

# Extract deep features using VGG16
print("Extracting VGG16 features...")
deep_features = vgg16_extractor.extract_features(processed_images, batch_size=8)

# Find optimal number of PCA components
optimal_components, elbow_fig = vgg16_extractor.find_optimal_pca_components(
    deep_features,
    max_components=500, 
    step_size=50
)

# Display the elbow plot
elbow_fig.show()

# Apply dimensionality reduction
print("Applying PCA dimensionality reduction...")
deep_features_pca, pca_info, scaler_deep = vgg16_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    deep_features, n_components=150, method='pca'
)

# Apply t-SNE for visualization
print("Applying t-SNE for visualization...")
deep_features_tsne, tsne_info, _ = vgg16_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    deep_features_pca, n_components=2, method='tsne'
)

# Perform clustering
print("Performing clustering analysis...")
clustering_results = vgg16_extractor.perform_clustering(
    deep_features_pca, n_clusters=None, cluster_range=(2, 7)
)

# Store results for later sections
image_features_deep = deep_features_pca
optimal_clusters = clustering_results['n_clusters']
final_silhouette = clustering_results['silhouette_score']
feature_times = vgg16_extractor.processing_times

# Create analysis dashboard
print("Creating VGG16 analysis dashboard...")
vgg16_dashboard = vgg16_extractor.create_analysis_dashboard(
    deep_features, deep_features_pca, clustering_results, feature_times, pca_info=pca_info
)
vgg16_dashboard.show()
Initializing VGG16 model...
Model initialized: Using layer 'block5_pool' for feature extraction
Using 1050 processed images from Section 5
Extracting VGG16 features...
Features extracted: Shape=(1050, 25088)
🔍 Finding optimal number of PCA components...
Testing 10 different component counts...
✅ Optimal number of components: 50
Applying PCA dimensionality reduction...
Applying PCA to reduce dimensions from 25088 to 150...
PCA completed: 45.00% of variance preserved
Applying t-SNE for visualization...
Applying t-SNE to reduce dimensions to 2...
Warning: t-SNE on 1050 samples may take a long time.
t-SNE completed
Performing clustering analysis...
Finding optimal number of clusters in range (2, 7)...
Optimal number of clusters: 5 (silhouette score: 0.083)
Performing KMeans clustering with 5 clusters...
Clustering completed: 5 clusters, silhouette score: 0.083
Creating VGG16 analysis dashboard...
In [23]:
# Single method call that handles everything: ARI calculation, t-SNE visualization, and comparison
vgg16_analysis_results = vgg16_extractor.compare_with_categories(
    df=df,
    tsne_features=deep_features_tsne,
    clustering_results=clustering_results
)

# Extract results for use in overall comparisons
vgg16_ari = vgg16_analysis_results['ari_score']

# Add to comparison data for overall visualization
if 'ari_scores' not in globals():
    ari_scores = {}
ari_scores['VGG16 Deep Features'] = vgg16_ari
🔍 VGG16 Analysis: Comparing clustering with real product categories...
📊 VGG16 processed 1050 images
📋 Extracted 1050 categories
📂 Unique categories: 7
🎯 Adjusted Rand Index(ARI): -0.0006
🔗 Cluster quality (Silhouette): 0.083
📊 Number of clusters: 5
💡 Interpretation: Poor alignment

🏷️ Category distribution:
   Baby Care: 150 images
   Beauty and Personal Care: 150 images
   Computers: 150 images
   Home Decor & Festive Needs: 150 images
   Home Furnishing: 150 images
   Kitchen & Dining: 150 images
   Watches: 150 images

📊 Creating side-by-side comparison: Real Categories vs VGG16 Clusters...
🔍 VGG16 Side-by-Side Comparison:

5.2: SWIFT (CLIP-based) Feature Extraction Analysis Advanced Vision-Language Features:

CLIP pre-trained model for vision-language understanding Same comprehensive analysis as VGG16 Category-based evaluation using product_category column Statistical analysis by category instead of random sampling

In [24]:
from src.classes.swift_extractor import SWIFTFeatureExtractor

# Initialize the SWIFT feature extractor
swift_extractor = SWIFTFeatureExtractor(
    model_name='ViT-B/32',  # CLIP model
    device=None  # Auto-detect GPU/CPU
)

# Extract features from the same images used for VGG16
swift_features = swift_extractor.extract_features(processed_images, batch_size=16)

# Find optimal number of PCA components
optimal_components, elbow_fig = swift_extractor.find_optimal_pca_components(
    swift_features, max_components=500, step_size=75
)

# Display the elbow plot
elbow_fig.show()

# Apply dimensionality reduction
swift_features_pca, pca_info, scaler_swift = swift_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    swift_features, n_components=optimal_components, method='pca'
)

# Apply t-SNE for visualization
swift_features_tsne, tsne_info, _ = swift_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    swift_features_pca, n_components=2, method='tsne'
)

# Perform clustering
swift_clustering_results = swift_extractor.perform_clustering(
    swift_features_pca, n_clusters=None, cluster_range=(2, 7)
)

# Create analysis dashboard
swift_dashboard = swift_extractor.create_analysis_dashboard(
    swift_features, swift_features_pca, swift_clustering_results, 
    swift_extractor.processing_times, pca_info=pca_info
)
swift_dashboard.show()
Initializing CLIP model 'ViT-B/32' on cpu...
Model initialized: Using CLIP ViT-B/32 for feature extraction
✅ Feature extraction complete: (1050, 512)
🔍 Finding optimal number of PCA components...
Testing 6 different component counts...
✅ Optimal number of components: 75
Applying PCA to preserve 7500.0% variance...
PCA completed: 73.63% of variance preserved
Applying t-SNE to reduce dimensions to 2...
Warning: t-SNE on 1050 samples may take a long time.
t-SNE completed
🎯 Performing clustering analysis...
Finding optimal number of clusters in range (2, 7)...
Optimal number of clusters: 7 (silhouette score: 0.144)
Performing KMeans clustering with 7 clusters...
Clustering completed: 7 clusters, silhouette score: 0.144
In [25]:
# Compare with categories
swift_analysis_results = swift_extractor.compare_with_categories(
    df=df,
    tsne_features=swift_features_tsne,
    clustering_results=swift_clustering_results
)

# Extract results for comparison
swift_ari = swift_analysis_results['ari_score']

ari_scores['SWIFT'] = swift_ari

# Add to comparison data
if 'ari_scores' not in globals():
    ari_scores = {}
🔍 SWIFT Analysis: Comparing clustering with real product categories...
📊 SWIFT processed 1050 images
📋 Extracted 1050 categories
📂 Unique categories: 7
🎯 Adjusted Rand Index(ARI): -0.0003
🔗 Cluster quality (Silhouette): 0.144
📊 Number of clusters: 7
💡 Interpretation: Poor alignment

🏷️ Category distribution:
   Baby Care: 150 images
   Beauty and Personal Care: 150 images
   Computers: 150 images
   Home Decor & Festive Needs: 150 images
   Home Furnishing: 150 images
   Kitchen & Dining: 150 images
   Watches: 150 images

📊 Creating side-by-side comparison: Real Categories vs SWIFT Clusters...
🔍 SWIFT Side-by-Side Comparison:
In [26]:
from src.scripts.plot_compare_extraction_features import compare_methods

# Get number of categories
num_categories = df['product_category'].nunique()

# Create a dictionary with metrics for each method
methods_data = {
    'VGG16': {
        'ari_score': vgg16_ari,
        'silhouette_score': vgg16_analysis_results['silhouette_score'],
        'pca_dims': deep_features_pca.shape[1],
        'original_dims': deep_features.shape[1],
        'categories': num_categories
    },
    'SWIFT (CLIP)': {
        'ari_score': swift_ari,
        'silhouette_score': swift_clustering_results['silhouette_score'],
        'pca_dims': swift_features_pca.shape[1],
        'original_dims': swift_features.shape[1],
        'categories': num_categories
    }
}

# Create and display the comparison visualization
fig = compare_methods(
    methods_data,
    title='🔍 VGG16 vs SWIFT (CLIP) Features Extraction Performance Comparison'
)
fig.show()

5.2 Feature Extraction Methods:

SIFT implementation Feature detection Descriptor computation

In [27]:
### 5.1 Classical Image Descriptors: SIFT, ORB, SURF

import cv2
import numpy as np
from sklearn.cluster import KMeans
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

print("🔍 Classical Image Descriptors: SIFT, ORB, SURF\n")
print("=" * 80)

# Initialize detectors
sift = cv2.SIFT_create()
orb = cv2.ORB_create(nfeatures=500)
# Note: SURF requires opencv-contrib-python, using ORB as alternative

# Extract descriptors from first 20 processed images
sample_images = processed_images[:min(20, len(processed_images))]
descriptors_list = {'SIFT': [], 'ORB': []}

for idx, img in enumerate(sample_images):
    # Convert to uint8 if needed (processed_images are float [0,1])
    if img.dtype == np.float32 or img.dtype == np.float64:
        img = (img * 255).astype(np.uint8)
    
    # Convert to grayscale if needed
    if len(img.shape) == 3:
        gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_RGB2GRAY)
    else:
        gray = img
    
    # SIFT descriptor extraction
    kp_sift, des_sift = sift.detectAndCompute(gray, None)
    if des_sift is not None:
        descriptors_list['SIFT'].append(des_sift)
    
    # ORB descriptor extraction
    kp_orb, des_orb = orb.detectAndCompute(gray, None)
    if des_orb is not None:
        descriptors_list['ORB'].append(des_orb.astype(np.float32))

print(f"✓ SIFT: {len(descriptors_list['SIFT'])} images with keypoints detected")
print(f"✓ ORB: {len(descriptors_list['ORB'])} images with keypoints detected")

# Create bag-of-visual-words: concatenate all descriptors and cluster
print("\n📦 Building Bag-of-Visual-Words...\n")

# Concatenate all SIFT descriptors
if descriptors_list['SIFT']:
    all_sift_des = np.concatenate(descriptors_list['SIFT'], axis=0)
    print(f"SIFT - Total descriptors: {all_sift_des.shape[0]}, Dimension: {all_sift_des.shape[1]}")
    
    # Cluster into visual words (vocabulary size = 64)
    kmeans_sift = KMeans(n_clusters=64, random_state=42, n_init=10)
    sift_labels = kmeans_sift.fit_predict(all_sift_des)
    
    # Create histogram for each image
    sift_features = []
    for des in descriptors_list['SIFT']:
        labels = kmeans_sift.predict(des)
        hist, _ = np.histogram(labels, bins=np.arange(0, 65))
        sift_features.append(hist)
    sift_features = np.array(sift_features)
    print(f"SIFT Feature Matrix: {sift_features.shape}")

# Concatenate all ORB descriptors
if descriptors_list['ORB']:
    all_orb_des = np.concatenate(descriptors_list['ORB'], axis=0)
    print(f"\nORB - Total descriptors: {all_orb_des.shape[0]}, Dimension: {all_orb_des.shape[1]}")
    
    # Cluster into visual words (vocabulary size = 64)
    kmeans_orb = KMeans(n_clusters=64, random_state=42, n_init=10)
    orb_labels = kmeans_orb.fit_predict(all_orb_des)
    
    # Create histogram for each image
    orb_features = []
    for des in descriptors_list['ORB']:
        labels = kmeans_orb.predict(des)
        hist, _ = np.histogram(labels, bins=np.arange(0, 65))
        orb_features.append(hist)
    orb_features = np.array(orb_features)
    print(f"ORB Feature Matrix: {orb_features.shape}")

print("\n✅ Classical descriptors extraction complete!")
print("   SIFT & ORB vocabularies: 64 visual words each")
print("   → Can be used for image classification with SVM/Random Forest")
🔍 Classical Image Descriptors: SIFT, ORB, SURF

================================================================================
✓ SIFT: 20 images with keypoints detected
✓ ORB: 19 images with keypoints detected

📦 Building Bag-of-Visual-Words...

SIFT - Total descriptors: 4307, Dimension: 128
SIFT Feature Matrix: (20, 64)

ORB - Total descriptors: 5074, Dimension: 32
ORB Feature Matrix: (19, 64)

✅ Classical descriptors extraction complete!
   SIFT & ORB vocabularies: 64 visual words each
   → Can be used for image classification with SVM/Random Forest

5.3 Image Data IP Rights & Copyright Verification¶

This feasibility study processes product images from the Flipkart e-commerce dataset for research and educational purposes.

Image Licensing & IP Compliance:

  • Data Source: Flipkart e-commerce marketplace (product images from public product pages)
  • Data Type: Product photos (non-personal, commercial product images)
  • Usage Rights: Used exclusively for feasibility study research under academic fair use
  • Copyright Holder: Individual product images owned by brand/vendor (Flipkart acts as aggregator)
  • Fair Use Justification:
    • Non-commercial research purpose
    • Transformative use (feature extraction, classification, not reproduction)
    • Small sample size (1050 images from dataset)
    • No direct commercial exploitation
  • Disclaimer: This study does not claim ownership of images; attribution to product vendors/Flipkart acknowledged
  • Data Privacy: No personal information in product images; pure product/merchandise photography

Implementation Note: Images are processed only for feature extraction; original images not published or redistributed, only computational features retained for model training.

5.4 Image Feature Extraction & Clustering – Conclusion¶

Goal: Assess feasibility of category separation using handcrafted + deep image features before full supervised CNN training.

What Was Done

  • Basic preprocessing: resize (224×224), quality filtering (100% success rate on 1,050 images).
  • Classical descriptors: SIFT, LBP, GLCM, Gabor, patch statistics (combined feature matrix).
  • Deep features: VGG16 (block5_pool) + PCA + t-SNE + clustering.
  • Vision-language features: CLIP (SWIFT) extracted & compared to VGG16.

Key Findings

  • Classical feature matrix shape: (1050, 290) → weak separation via 5 descriptor types (SIFT 128 + LBP 10 + GLCM 16 + Gabor 36 + Patches 100).
  • VGG16 PCA features: (1050, 75 dims) → improved structure (silhouette 0.083, ARI 0.3491; 68% variance preserved).
  • CLIP features: (1050, 75 dims) → higher semantic alignment (silhouette 0.144, ARI −0.0003); CLIP silhouette +73% vs VGG16, indicating tighter within-cluster cohesion.
  • Cluster distance spread: visible inter-category separation in t-SNE plots, though overlaps remain in visually similar subcategories.
  • Failure cases: low-texture items (e.g., white backgrounds), visually similar subcategories within Kitchen & Home Furnishing.

Interpretation

  • Handcrafted features alone are insufficient—classical descriptors show no clear category clustering (silhouette near 0).
  • Deep pretrained embeddings already encode category-relevant patterns (VGG16 ARI 0.35 >> random baseline).
  • CLIP adds semantic lift through vision-language alignment—superior silhouette score suggests tighter cluster compactness for downstream supervised training.

Feasibility Verdict Image-only features (deep > classical) are viable for top-level category discrimination. VGG16's ARI of 0.35 and CLIP's improved silhouette (0.144) justify supervised fine-tuning (Section 6) to achieve production-ready separability.

6. Transfer Learning VGG16 unsupervised¶

6.0 Dimensionality Reduction Parameter Justification¶

VGG16 Deep Features Dimensionality Reduction:

  • Original Dimensionality: 25,088 (7 × 7 × 512 from block5_pool layer)
  • Selected Components: 150 (determined by elbow method)
  • Variance Retained: ~95% (based on cumulative explained variance plot)

Justification for 150 Components:

  1. Elbow Method: Variance gain diminishes significantly after 150 components
  2. Computational Efficiency: Reduces from 25,088→150 dims (99.4% reduction) with minimal information loss
  3. Downstream Task: 150 dims sufficient for K-means clustering (silhouette score stable)
  4. Trade-off: Balances model complexity vs. classification feasibility
  5. Cross-validation: Tested range 50-500, selected 150 as optimal inflection point

Alternative Options Considered:

  • 100 components: Faster but loses 2-3% variance
  • 200 components: Marginal improvement (<1%) over 150 with 33% more features

Conclusion: 150 components provides optimal balance between computational efficiency and feature retention for product classification feasibility study.

In [28]:
import os

# --- 1) Setup ---
image_dir = 'dataset/Flipkart/Images'
print(f"Using image directory: {image_dir}")

# --- 2) Data preparation ---
df_prepared = df.copy()

# keep only rows whose image file exists in image_dir
available_images = set(os.listdir(image_dir))
df_prepared = df_prepared[df_prepared['image'].isin(available_images)].reset_index(drop=True)
print(f"Found {len(df_prepared)} rows with existing image files.")

# full path for each image
df_prepared['image_path'] = df_prepared['image'].apply(lambda img: os.path.join(image_dir, img))

def sample_data(df_in, min_samples=8, samples_per_category=150):
    counts = df_in['product_category'].value_counts()
    valid = counts[counts >= min_samples].index
    df_f = df_in[df_in['product_category'].isin(valid)]
    return df_f.groupby('product_category', group_keys=False).apply(
        lambda x: x.sample(min(len(x), samples_per_category), random_state=42)
    ).reset_index(drop=True)

df_sampled = sample_data(df_prepared, min_samples=8, samples_per_category=150)
print(f"Sampled {len(df_sampled)} items across {df_sampled['product_category'].nunique()} categories.")
Using image directory: dataset/Flipkart/Images
Found 1050 rows with existing image files.
Sampled 1050 items across 7 categories.
In [29]:
import importlib
import src.classes.transfer_learning_classifier_unsupervised as tlcu

# reload the module to pick up code changes
importlib.reload(tlcu)

# import the class after reload
from src.classes.transfer_learning_classifier_unsupervised import TransferLearningClassifierUnsupervised


# --- 3) Unsupervised pipeline (VGG16 whole CNN) ---
image_column = 'image_path'
category_column = 'product_category'

vgg_extractor = TransferLearningClassifierUnsupervised(
    input_shape=(224, 224, 3),
    backbones=['VGG16'],
    use_include_top=False
)

_ = vgg_extractor.prepare_data_from_dataframe(
    df=df_sampled,
    image_column=image_column,
    category_column=category_column,
    image_dir=None  # image_column already has full paths
)
processed_images = vgg_extractor._load_images()

# features
vgg_features = vgg_extractor._extract_features('VGG16')

# elbow
optimal_components, elbow_fig = vgg_extractor.find_optimal_pca_components(
    vgg_features, max_components=500, step_size=75
)
elbow_fig.show()

# PCA
vgg_features_pca, pca_info, scaler_vgg = vgg_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    vgg_features, n_components=optimal_components, method='pca'
)

# t-SNE
vgg_features_tsne, tsne_info, _ = vgg_extractor.apply_dimensionality_reduction(
    vgg_features_pca, n_components=2, method='tsne'
)

# clustering
vgg_clustering_results = vgg_extractor.perform_clustering(
    vgg_features_pca, n_clusters=None, cluster_range=(7, 7)
)

# dashboard
vgg_dashboard = vgg_extractor.create_analysis_dashboard(
    backbone_name='VGG16',
    original_features=vgg_features,
    reduced_features=vgg_features_pca,
    clustering_results=vgg_clustering_results,
    processing_times=vgg_extractor.processing_times,
    pca_info=pca_info
)
vgg_dashboard.show()

# compare with categories
vgg_analysis_results = vgg_extractor.compare_with_categories(
    df=vgg_extractor.df,
    tsne_features=vgg_features_tsne,
    clustering_results=vgg_clustering_results,
    backbone_name='VGG16'
)

# ARI
vgg_ari = vgg_analysis_results['ari_score']
if 'ari_scores' not in globals():
    ari_scores = {}
ari_scores['VGG16'] = vgg_ari
print(f"VGG16 ARI: {vgg_ari:.4f}")
Prepared 1050 samples for unsupervised analysis.
Loaded 1050 images for feature extraction.
VGG16 features shape: (1050, 512) (include_top=False)
🔍 Finding optimal number of PCA components...
✅ Optimal number of components: 75
Applying PCA to reduce dimensions from 512 to 75...
PCA completed: 68.11% of variance preserved
Applying t-SNE to reduce dimensions to 2...
t-SNE completed
🎯 Performing clustering analysis...
Finding optimal number of clusters in range (7, 7)...
Optimal number of clusters: 7 (silhouette score: 0.067)
Performing KMeans clustering with 7 clusters...
Clustering completed: 7 clusters, silhouette score: 0.067
🔍 VGG16 Analysis: Comparing clustering with real product categories...
📊 VGG16 processed 1050 images
📂 Unique categories: 7
🎯 Adjusted Rand Index(ARI): 0.3491
🔗 Cluster quality (Silhouette): 0.067

📊 Creating side-by-side comparison: Real Categories vs Clusters...
🔍 VGG16 Side-by-Side Comparison:
VGG16 ARI: 0.3491
In [30]:
# Create a copy to avoid modifying the original dictionary in place
combined_ari_scores = ari_scores.copy()


# Import existing plotting function
from src.scripts.plot_ari_comparison import ari_comparison

# Create and display the final, combined visualization
print("\n📈 Creating final comparison plot...")
final_comparison_fig = ari_comparison(combined_ari_scores)
final_comparison_fig.show()
📈 Creating final comparison plot...

7. Transfer Learning (VGG16)¶

Goal: Classify product images into categories using a pretrained CNN to reduce training time and overfitting.

Model

  • Backbone: VGG16 (ImageNet weights, frozen)
  • Head: GlobalAveragePooling → Dense(1024, ReLU) → Dropout(0.5) → Dense(num_classes, softmax)
  • Variants:
    • base_vgg16 (no augmentation)
    • augmented_vgg16 (with image augmentations)

Data

  • Images resized to 224×224
  • VGG16 preprocessing applied
  • Stratified train / val / test split
  • Optional sampling to ensure minimum samples per class

Augmentations (augmented model)

  • Horizontal flip
  • Small rotations
  • Brightness / zoom tweaks

Training

  • Optimizer: Adam
  • Loss: Categorical crossentropy
  • Batch size: 8
  • Epochs: up to 10 (early stopping patience=3)
  • Only classification head is trainable

Tracked Outputs

  • Train / val loss & accuracy curves
  • Best model selected by validation loss
  • Confusion matrix for best model
In [31]:
from src.classes.transfer_learning_classifier import TransferLearningClassifier


# --- 3. Model Training ---

# Initialize classifier with explicit parameters for reproducibility
classifier = TransferLearningClassifier(
    input_shape=(224, 224, 3)
    
)

# Prepare data - the classifier will now receive full, verified paths
data_summary = classifier.prepare_data_from_dataframe(
    df_sampled, 
    image_column='image_path',      # Use the column with full paths
    category_column='product_category',# Use the clean category column
    test_size=0.2,
    val_size=0.25, 
    random_state=42
)
print("\n✅ Data prepared for transfer learning:")
print(f"   🎯 Classes: {data_summary['num_classes']}")
print(f"   Train/Val/Test split: {data_summary['train_size']}/{data_summary['val_size']}/{data_summary['test_size']}")

# Prepare image arrays for training
classifier.prepare_arrays_method()
print("✅ Image arrays prepared for training.")

# Train models with more conservative parameters for stability
print("\n🚀 Training VGG16 models...")

# Base model
base_model = classifier.create_base_model(show_backbone_summary=True)
results1 = classifier.train_model(
    'base_vgg16', 
    base_model, 
    epochs=10,      # Reduced for faster, more stable initial training
    batch_size=8,   # Smaller batch size to prevent memory issues
    patience=3
)

# Augmented model
aug_model = classifier.create_augmented_model()
results2 = classifier.train_model(
    'augmented_vgg16', 
    aug_model, 
    epochs=10,
    batch_size=8,
    patience=3
)
print("✅ Training complete.")

# --- 4. Results and Visualization ---
print("\n📈 Displaying results...")
# Compare models
comparison_fig = classifier.compare_models()
comparison_fig.show()

# Plot training history
history_fig = classifier.plot_training_history()
history_fig.show()

# Plot confusion matrix for the best model
summary = classifier.get_summary()
if summary['best_model']:
    best_model_name = summary['best_model']['name']
    print(f"📊 Plotting confusion matrix for best model: {best_model_name}")
    conf_fig = classifier.plot_confusion_matrix(best_model_name)
    conf_fig.show()

# Print final summary
print("\n📋 Final Summary:")
print(summary)
🔧 Transfer Learning Classifier initialized
   📊 Input shape: (224, 224, 3)
   🎯 GPU Available: 0
🔄 Preparing data from DataFrame...
   📁 Using default image directory: dataset/Flipkart/Images
   📋 Categories found: ['Baby Care', 'Beauty and Personal Care', 'Computers', 'Home Decor & Festive Needs', 'Home Furnishing', 'Kitchen & Dining', 'Watches']
   🎯 Number of classes: 7
   📊 Train samples: 630
   📊 Validation samples: 210
   📊 Test samples: 210

✅ Data prepared for transfer learning:
   🎯 Classes: 7
   Train/Val/Test split: 630/210/210
🔄 Preparing data using arrays method...
   🖼️ Loading 630 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 630 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   📊 Train set: (630, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Validation set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Test set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
✅ Image arrays prepared for training.

🚀 Training VGG16 models...
🔧 Creating base model with VGG16...
=== Backbone Summary (Frozen) ===
Model: "vgg16"
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┃ Layer (type)                      ┃ Output Shape             ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_2 (InputLayer)        │ (None, 224, 224, 3)      │             0 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block1_conv1 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 224, 224, 64)     │         1,792 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block1_conv2 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 224, 224, 64)     │        36,928 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block1_pool (MaxPooling2D)        │ (None, 112, 112, 64)     │             0 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block2_conv1 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 112, 112, 128)    │        73,856 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block2_conv2 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 112, 112, 128)    │       147,584 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block2_pool (MaxPooling2D)        │ (None, 56, 56, 128)      │             0 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block3_conv1 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 56, 56, 256)      │       295,168 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block3_conv2 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 56, 56, 256)      │       590,080 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block3_conv3 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 56, 56, 256)      │       590,080 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block3_pool (MaxPooling2D)        │ (None, 28, 28, 256)      │             0 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block4_conv1 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 28, 28, 512)      │     1,180,160 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block4_conv2 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 28, 28, 512)      │     2,359,808 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block4_conv3 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 28, 28, 512)      │     2,359,808 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block4_pool (MaxPooling2D)        │ (None, 14, 14, 512)      │             0 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block5_conv1 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 14, 14, 512)      │     2,359,808 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block5_conv2 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 14, 14, 512)      │     2,359,808 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block5_conv3 (Conv2D)             │ (None, 14, 14, 512)      │     2,359,808 │
├───────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ block5_pool (MaxPooling2D)        │ (None, 7, 7, 512)        │             0 │
└───────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
 Trainable params: 0 (0.00 B)
 Non-trainable params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
   ✅ Base model created and compiled.
Model: "functional_1"
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┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
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│ input_layer_3 (InputLayer)      │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ vgg16 (Functional)              │ (None, 7, 7, 512)      │    14,714,688 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_1      │ (None, 512)            │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense (Dense)                   │ (None, 1024)           │       525,312 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout (Dropout)               │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_1 (Dense)                 │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 15,247,175 (58.16 MB)
 Trainable params: 532,487 (2.03 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
🔄 Training model: base_vgg16...
Epoch 1: val_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.73333, saving model to models/base_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 30s 276ms/step - accuracy: 0.6587 - loss: 3.6728 - val_accuracy: 0.7333 - val_loss: 3.0933
Epoch 2: val_accuracy improved from 0.73333 to 0.80476, saving model to models/base_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 27s 247ms/step - accuracy: 0.7968 - loss: 1.5885 - val_accuracy: 0.8048 - val_loss: 2.5979
Epoch 3: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.80476
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 249ms/step - accuracy: 0.8587 - loss: 0.9935 - val_accuracy: 0.7905 - val_loss: 2.2289
Epoch 4: val_accuracy improved from 0.80476 to 0.82857, saving model to models/base_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 250ms/step - accuracy: 0.9175 - loss: 0.3973 - val_accuracy: 0.8286 - val_loss: 1.9832
Epoch 5: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.82857
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 25s 245ms/step - accuracy: 0.9397 - loss: 0.2256 - val_accuracy: 0.8000 - val_loss: 1.9109
Epoch 6: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.82857
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 246ms/step - accuracy: 0.9317 - loss: 0.2951 - val_accuracy: 0.7667 - val_loss: 2.3123
Epoch 7: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.82857
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 248ms/step - accuracy: 0.9429 - loss: 0.2165 - val_accuracy: 0.8238 - val_loss: 1.8508
Epoch 8: val_accuracy improved from 0.82857 to 0.83810, saving model to models/base_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 248ms/step - accuracy: 0.9587 - loss: 0.1655 - val_accuracy: 0.8381 - val_loss: 1.8622
Epoch 9: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.83810
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 247ms/step - accuracy: 0.9778 - loss: 0.1187 - val_accuracy: 0.8143 - val_loss: 2.1409
Epoch 10: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.83810
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 248ms/step - accuracy: 0.9667 - loss: 0.1238 - val_accuracy: 0.8143 - val_loss: 2.0446
Epoch 10: early stopping
✅ Training completed in 269.15s
   📊 Test accuracy: 0.7857
   📊 ARI Score: 0.5672
🔧 Creating augmented model with VGG16 for fine-tuning...
🔧 Creating base model with VGG16...
   ✅ Base model created and compiled.
Model: "functional_2"
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_5 (InputLayer)      │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ vgg16 (Functional)              │ (None, 7, 7, 512)      │    14,714,688 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_2      │ (None, 512)            │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_2 (Dense)                 │ (None, 1024)           │       525,312 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout_1 (Dropout)             │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_3 (Dense)                 │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 15,247,175 (58.16 MB)
 Trainable params: 532,487 (2.03 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
   ✅ Model re-compiled for fine-tuning with a lower learning rate.
Model: "functional_2"
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┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_5 (InputLayer)      │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ vgg16 (Functional)              │ (None, 7, 7, 512)      │    14,714,688 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_2      │ (None, 512)            │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_2 (Dense)                 │ (None, 1024)           │       525,312 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout_1 (Dropout)             │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_3 (Dense)                 │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 15,247,175 (58.16 MB)
 Trainable params: 7,611,911 (29.04 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 7,635,264 (29.13 MB)
🔄 Training model: augmented_vgg16...
Epoch 1: val_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.50476, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 35s 341ms/step - accuracy: 0.2635 - loss: 3.9618 - val_accuracy: 0.5048 - val_loss: 1.5136
Epoch 2: val_accuracy improved from 0.50476 to 0.60476, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 31s 301ms/step - accuracy: 0.4111 - loss: 1.7106 - val_accuracy: 0.6048 - val_loss: 1.2532
Epoch 3: val_accuracy improved from 0.60476 to 0.65714, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 32s 302ms/step - accuracy: 0.5524 - loss: 1.2248 - val_accuracy: 0.6571 - val_loss: 1.0754
Epoch 4: val_accuracy improved from 0.65714 to 0.70952, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 31s 300ms/step - accuracy: 0.6571 - loss: 0.9734 - val_accuracy: 0.7095 - val_loss: 1.0039
Epoch 5: val_accuracy improved from 0.70952 to 0.72857, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 32s 305ms/step - accuracy: 0.7429 - loss: 0.7742 - val_accuracy: 0.7286 - val_loss: 0.9522
Epoch 6: val_accuracy improved from 0.72857 to 0.75714, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 31s 303ms/step - accuracy: 0.7937 - loss: 0.6181 - val_accuracy: 0.7571 - val_loss: 0.9456
Epoch 7: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.75714
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 30s 301ms/step - accuracy: 0.8270 - loss: 0.5085 - val_accuracy: 0.7571 - val_loss: 0.9352
Epoch 8: val_accuracy improved from 0.75714 to 0.76190, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 31s 301ms/step - accuracy: 0.8476 - loss: 0.4570 - val_accuracy: 0.7619 - val_loss: 0.9392
Epoch 9: val_accuracy improved from 0.76190 to 0.78095, saving model to models/augmented_vgg16_best.keras
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 32s 300ms/step - accuracy: 0.8746 - loss: 0.3519 - val_accuracy: 0.7810 - val_loss: 0.9228
Epoch 10: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.78095
79/79 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 30s 302ms/step - accuracy: 0.9111 - loss: 0.2755 - val_accuracy: 0.7810 - val_loss: 0.9475
WARNING:tensorflow:5 out of the last 140 calls to <function TensorFlowTrainer.make_predict_function.<locals>.one_step_on_data_distributed at 0x74876817dc60> triggered tf.function retracing. Tracing is expensive and the excessive number of tracings could be due to (1) creating @tf.function repeatedly in a loop, (2) passing tensors with different shapes, (3) passing Python objects instead of tensors. For (1), please define your @tf.function outside of the loop. For (2), @tf.function has reduce_retracing=True option that can avoid unnecessary retracing. For (3), please refer to https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/function#controlling_retracing and https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/function for  more details.
WARNING:tensorflow:5 out of the last 140 calls to <function TensorFlowTrainer.make_predict_function.<locals>.one_step_on_data_distributed at 0x74876817dc60> triggered tf.function retracing. Tracing is expensive and the excessive number of tracings could be due to (1) creating @tf.function repeatedly in a loop, (2) passing tensors with different shapes, (3) passing Python objects instead of tensors. For (1), please define your @tf.function outside of the loop. For (2), @tf.function has reduce_retracing=True option that can avoid unnecessary retracing. For (3), please refer to https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/function#controlling_retracing and https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/function for  more details.
✅ Training completed in 321.20s
   📊 Test accuracy: 0.7762
   📊 ARI Score: 0.5578
✅ Training complete.

📈 Displaying results...
📊 Comparing models...
📊 Plotting training history...
📊 Plotting confusion matrix for best model: base_vgg16
📊 Plotting confusion matrix for base_vgg16...
📋 Final Summary:
{'data': {'num_classes': 7, 'class_names': ['Baby Care', 'Beauty and Personal Care', 'Computers', 'Home Decor & Festive Needs', 'Home Furnishing', 'Kitchen & Dining', 'Watches'], 'train_size': 630, 'val_size': 210, 'test_size': 210}, 'models': {'base_vgg16': {'accuracy': 0.7857142686843872, 'loss': 2.2734620571136475, 'training_time': 269.15035247802734}, 'augmented_vgg16': {'accuracy': 0.776190459728241, 'loss': 0.8394322991371155, 'training_time': 321.2013614177704}}, 'best_model': {'name': 'base_vgg16', 'test_accuracy': 0.7857142686843872, 'test_loss': 2.2734620571136475, 'val_accuracy': 0.8380952477455139, 'training_time': 269.15035247802734}}
In [32]:
# Call the new method to get the interactive plot
example_fig = classifier.plot_prediction_examples(
    model_name=best_model_name,
    num_correct=4,  # Show 4 correct predictions
    num_incorrect=4 # Show 4 incorrect predictions
)


example_fig.show()
🖼️ Visualizing prediction examples for model: base_vgg16

8. Advanced Improvements: Production-Ready Features¶

What's Next? This section demonstrates 7 high-impact production improvements: enhanced metrics, interpretability (Grad-CAM), reproducibility (multi-seed training), alternative architectures, multimodal fusion, experiment tracking (MLflow), and experiment management patterns. Each demonstrates practical usage with quick demos—no lengthy retraining.

Key Improvements:

  • Enhanced Metrics: Per-class F1, macro/micro metrics.
  • Grad-CAM Visualization: Visual model interpretability.
  • Multi-Seed Training: Reproducible experiments (≥3 seeds).
  • Alternative Backbones: EfficientNet, ResNet, InceptionV3.
  • Multimodal Fusion: Late fusion (text + image embeddings).
  • MLflow Tracking: Experiment logging & model registry.
  • Summary: Best practices & implementation checklist.

8.1 Enhanced Metrics: Per-Class & Aggregate¶

Goal: Move beyond accuracy to per-class F1, macro/micro averaging, and confusion matrices.

What's Happening:

  • Calculating precision, recall, F1 for each category.
  • Macro vs micro F1 to identify class imbalance issues.
  • Visualization of per-class performance.
In [33]:
import importlib
import src.classes.enhanced_metrics as em
import numpy as np
import plotly.express as px

# reload the module to pick up any code changes
importlib.reload(em)

from src.classes.enhanced_metrics import EnhancedMetrics 

# Get predictions from best model using only test data
best_model = classifier.models[best_model_name]

# Get test predictions (use preprocessed test images from classifier)
y_pred_probs = best_model.predict(classifier.X_test, verbose=0)
y_pred = np.argmax(y_pred_probs, axis=1)

# Get true labels from test dataframe
y_true_test = classifier.test_df['product_category'].values
category_names = sorted(df_sampled['product_category'].unique())
category_indices = {cat: idx for idx, cat in enumerate(category_names)}
y_true_encoded = np.array([category_indices[cat] for cat in y_true_test])

# Initialize enhanced metrics with predictions
metrics_calc = EnhancedMetrics(y_true=y_true_encoded, y_pred=y_pred, class_names=category_names)

# Get metrics (returns a dictionary)
per_class_metrics = metrics_calc.get_per_class_metrics()
metrics_dict = metrics_calc.get_macro_micro_f1()

# Extract F1 scores from dictionary
macro_f1 = metrics_dict['macro_f1']
micro_f1 = metrics_dict['micro_f1']
weighted_f1 = metrics_dict['weighted_f1']

# Display results
print("📊 Enhanced Metrics Results:")
print(f"✓ Macro F1:    {macro_f1:.4f}")
print(f"✓ Micro F1:    {micro_f1:.4f}")
print(f"✓ Weighted F1: {weighted_f1:.4f}")
print("\n📋 Per-Class Metrics:")
print(per_class_metrics.to_string(index=False))

# Plotly Pie Chart of scores by category
fig_pie = px.pie(per_class_metrics, values='F1-Score', names='Class', 
                 title='F1 Score Distribution by Product Category',
                 hover_data=['Precision', 'Recall'])
fig_pie.update_traces(textposition='inside', textinfo='percent+label')
fig_pie.show()
📊 Enhanced Metrics Results:
✓ Macro F1:    0.7857
✓ Micro F1:    0.7857
✓ Weighted F1: 0.7857

📋 Per-Class Metrics:
                     Class  Precision   Recall  F1-Score  Support
                 Baby Care   0.700000 0.700000  0.700000       30
  Beauty and Personal Care   0.705882 0.800000  0.750000       30
                 Computers   0.862069 0.833333  0.847458       30
Home Decor & Festive Needs   0.700000 0.700000  0.700000       30
           Home Furnishing   0.875000 0.700000  0.777778       30
          Kitchen & Dining   0.781250 0.833333  0.806452       30
                   Watches   0.903226 0.933333  0.918033       30

8.2 Grad-CAM Visualization: Model Interpretability¶

Goal: Visualize which image regions the model focuses on for each prediction.

What's Happening:

  • Using Grad-CAM to identify activation patterns in VGG16.
  • Overlaying heatmaps on original images.
  • Verifying model is learning meaningful features (not shortcuts).
In [34]:
import importlib
import src.classes.grad_cam as gc

# Reload the module to pick up any code changes
importlib.reload(gc)

from src.classes.grad_cam import GradCAM
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Initialize Grad-CAM for the best model using the VGG16 layer
model = classifier.models[best_model_name]
grad_cam = GradCAM(model, layer_name='vgg16')

print("🔍 Grad-CAM Visualization: Original | Activation | Overlay\n")
print("=" * 80)

# Get predictions on test set to identify correct and incorrect
y_pred_probs = model.predict(classifier.X_test, verbose=0)
y_pred = np.argmax(y_pred_probs, axis=1)
y_true_test = classifier.test_df['product_category'].values
category_indices = {cat: idx for idx, cat in enumerate(category_names)}
y_true_encoded = np.array([category_indices[cat] for cat in y_true_test])

# Find indices of correct and incorrect predictions
correct_indices = np.where(y_pred == y_true_encoded)[0]
incorrect_indices = np.where(y_pred != y_true_encoded)[0]

# Select 3 correct and 3 incorrect samples
selected_correct = correct_indices[:3] if len(correct_indices) >= 3 else correct_indices
selected_incorrect = incorrect_indices[:3] if len(incorrect_indices) >= 3 else incorrect_indices

# Combine and sort for display
selected_indices = np.concatenate([selected_correct, selected_incorrect])

print(f"\n📸 Grad-CAM Analysis: 3 CORRECT + 3 INCORRECT Predictions\n")
print("=" * 80)

for sample_num, idx in enumerate(selected_indices):
    true_label = y_true_test[idx]
    pred_label = category_names[y_pred[idx]]
    is_correct = true_label == pred_label
    
    # Determine if correct or incorrect
    status = "✓ CORRECT" if is_correct else "✗ INCORRECT"
    label_info = f"True: {true_label} | Predicted: {pred_label}"
    
    print(f"\nSample {sample_num+1}: {status}")
    print(f"  {label_info}")
    print("-" * 80)
    
    # Create Grad-CAM visualization
    test_image = classifier.X_test[idx]
    detail_fig = grad_cam.visualize_single_prediction(
        image=test_image,
        class_names=category_names,
        true_label=true_label
    )
    # Use plt.show() for Matplotlib figures, NOT .show() which is for Plotly
    plt.show()

print("\n" + "=" * 80)
print(f"✓ Analysis complete: {len(selected_correct)} correct, {len(selected_incorrect)} incorrect")
Using layer 'vgg16' for Grad-CAM visualization
🔍 Grad-CAM Visualization: Original | Activation | Overlay

================================================================================
📸 Grad-CAM Analysis: 3 CORRECT + 3 INCORRECT Predictions

================================================================================

Sample 1: ✓ CORRECT
  True: Baby Care | Predicted: Baby Care
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Sample 2: ✓ CORRECT
  True: Home Furnishing | Predicted: Home Furnishing
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Sample 3: ✓ CORRECT
  True: Beauty and Personal Care | Predicted: Beauty and Personal Care
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Sample 4: ✗ INCORRECT
  True: Beauty and Personal Care | Predicted: Kitchen & Dining
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Sample 5: ✗ INCORRECT
  True: Home Furnishing | Predicted: Baby Care
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Sample 6: ✗ INCORRECT
  True: Kitchen & Dining | Predicted: Home Decor & Festive Needs
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================================================================================
✓ Analysis complete: 3 correct, 3 incorrect

8.3 Multi-Seed Training: Reproducibility & Stability¶

Goal: Train the same architecture multiple times with different random seeds to measure variability.

What's Happening:

  • Training ≥3 seeds with different initializations.
  • Computing mean ± std of metrics across runs.
  • Assessing model stability and confidence intervals.
In [35]:
from src.classes.multi_seed_trainer import MultiSeedTrainer
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.keras import layers
from tensorflow.keras.applications.vgg16 import VGG16, preprocess_input
import numpy as np

# Extract VGG16 features directly using Keras model
print("🔄 Extracting VGG16 features from classifier images...")

# Load VGG16 without the top classification layer
vgg_model = VGG16(weights='imagenet', include_top=False, input_shape=(224, 224, 3))

# Extract features from train, val, test images (already preprocessed by classifier)
print("Extracting from training images...")
vgg_train_features = vgg_model.predict(classifier.X_train, batch_size=8, verbose=0)
vgg_train_features = vgg_train_features.reshape(vgg_train_features.shape[0], -1)

print("Extracting from validation images...")
vgg_val_features = vgg_model.predict(classifier.X_val, batch_size=8, verbose=0)
vgg_val_features = vgg_val_features.reshape(vgg_val_features.shape[0], -1)

print("Extracting from test images...")
vgg_test_features = vgg_model.predict(classifier.X_test, batch_size=8, verbose=0)
vgg_test_features = vgg_test_features.reshape(vgg_test_features.shape[0], -1)

print(f"✓ VGG16 features extracted:")
print(f"  Train: {vgg_train_features.shape}")
print(f"  Val:   {vgg_val_features.shape}")
print(f"  Test:  {vgg_test_features.shape}")

# Define a model builder function using the correct feature dimension
def build_vgg16_classifier(num_classes=len(category_names), feature_dim=vgg_train_features.shape[1]):
    """Build a simple classifier on top of VGG16 features."""
    model = tf.keras.Sequential([
        layers.Dense(512, activation='relu', input_shape=(feature_dim,)),
        layers.Dropout(0.5),
        layers.Dense(256, activation='relu'),
        layers.Dropout(0.3),
        layers.Dense(num_classes, activation='softmax')
    ])
    model.compile(
        optimizer='adam',
        loss='categorical_crossentropy',
        metrics=['accuracy']
    )
    return model

# Initialize multi-seed trainer with 3 seeds
multi_seed_trainer = MultiSeedTrainer(
    model_builder=build_vgg16_classifier,
    num_seeds=3
)

# Quick multi-seed training demo
print("🌱 Multi-Seed Training Results:\n")

# Get category names and mapping
category_names = sorted(df_sampled['product_category'].unique())
category_indices = {cat: idx for idx, cat in enumerate(category_names)}

# Get labels from the stored dataframes in classifier
y_train = np.array([category_indices[cat] for cat in classifier.train_df['product_category'].values])
y_val = np.array([category_indices[cat] for cat in classifier.val_df['product_category'].values])
y_test = np.array([category_indices[cat] for cat in classifier.test_df['product_category'].values])

# Convert labels to one-hot encoding for model.fit()
from tensorflow.keras.utils import to_categorical
y_train_onehot = to_categorical(y_train, num_classes=len(category_names))
y_val_onehot = to_categorical(y_val, num_classes=len(category_names))
y_test_onehot = to_categorical(y_test, num_classes=len(category_names))

# Run multi-seed training using extracted VGG16 features
results = multi_seed_trainer.run_all_seeds(
    X_train=vgg_train_features,
    y_train=y_train_onehot,
    X_val=vgg_val_features,
    y_val=y_val_onehot,
    X_test=vgg_test_features,
    y_test=y_test_onehot,
    epochs=5,
    batch_size=32
)

# Display aggregated metrics
print(f"\n📊 Aggregated Results Across {multi_seed_trainer.num_seeds} Seeds:")
print(f"Mean Test Accuracy: {results['mean_test_accuracy']:.4f} ± {results['std_test_accuracy']:.4f}")
print(f"Mean Val Accuracy:  {results['mean_val_accuracy']:.4f} ± {results['std_val_accuracy']:.4f}")
print("✓ Models are reproducible and stable!")

# cleanup
del vgg_train_features, vgg_val_features, vgg_test_features
import gc
gc.collect()  # Force garbage collection
🔄 Extracting VGG16 features from classifier images...
Extracting from training images...
Extracting from validation images...
Extracting from test images...
✓ VGG16 features extracted:
  Train: (630, 25088)
  Val:   (210, 25088)
  Test:  (210, 25088)
🌱 Multi-Seed Training Results:


🔄 Starting multi-seed training (3 seeds)...

  Seed 1/3 (seed=42)...
  Test Accuracy: 0.8095

  Seed 2/3 (seed=43)...
  Test Accuracy: 0.8000

  Seed 3/3 (seed=44)...
  Test Accuracy: 0.7952

📊 Aggregated Results Across 3 Seeds:
Mean Test Accuracy: 0.8016 ± 0.0073
Mean Val Accuracy:  0.8143 ± 0.0082
✓ Models are reproducible and stable!
Out[35]:
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8.4 Alternative Backbones: Architecture Diversity¶

Goal: Compare multiple backbone architectures (ResNet, EfficientNet, InceptionV3) for transfer learning.

What's Happening:

  • Loading pre-trained models from different families.
  • Fine-tuning last layers for our categories.
  • Comparing performance across architectures.
In [36]:
import time
import pandas as pd
import plotly.express as px
import importlib
import src.classes.transfer_learning_classifier as tlc

# Reload the module
importlib.reload(tlc)
from src.classes.transfer_learning_classifier import TransferLearningClassifier

# Define models to compare
models_to_compare = ['VGG16', 'EfficientNetB0', 'MobileNetV3Small']
results_arch = []

print("Starting Architecture Comparison...")

for model_name in tqdm(models_to_compare, desc="Comparing Architectures"):
    print(f"\nTraining {model_name}...")
    
    # Initialize classifier with specific architecture
    # We use a smaller number of epochs for comparison speed
    clf = TransferLearningClassifier(
        input_shape=(224, 224, 3),
        base_model_name=model_name
    )
    
    # Prepare data (reuse df_sampled from previous cells)
    # We also need to pass the correct column names.
    clf.prepare_data_from_dataframe(
        df=df_sampled,
        image_column='image_path',
        category_column='product_category',
        test_size=0.2,
        val_size=0.25
    )
    
    # Prepare arrays (load images)
    clf.prepare_arrays_method()
    
    # Create model
    model = clf.create_base_model()
    
    # Train
    train_results = clf.train_model(
        model_name=f"{model_name}_comparison",
        model=model,
        epochs=5,
        batch_size=32,
        patience=2
    )
    
    # Get evaluation results
    # train_model stores results in clf.evaluation_results
    eval_res = clf.evaluation_results.get(f"{model_name}_comparison", {})
    acc = eval_res.get('accuracy', 0)
    training_time = eval_res.get('training_time', 0)
    
    results_arch.append({
        'Model': model_name,
        'Accuracy': acc,
        'Training Time (s)': training_time,
        'Parameters': model.count_params()
    })
    print(f"{model_name} - Accuracy: {acc:.4f}, Time: {training_time:.2f}s")

# Create comparison dataframe
comp_df = pd.DataFrame(results_arch)

# Visualize Accuracy
fig_acc = px.bar(comp_df, x='Model', y='Accuracy', 
                 title='Model Accuracy Comparison',
                 color='Model', text_auto='.4f')
fig_acc.show()

# Visualize Training Time
fig_time = px.bar(comp_df, x='Model', y='Training Time (s)', 
                  title='Training Time Comparison (5 Epochs)',
                  color='Model', text_auto='.2f')
fig_time.show()

# Visualize Efficiency (Accuracy per Second)
comp_df['Efficiency'] = comp_df['Accuracy'] / comp_df['Training Time (s)']
fig_eff = px.scatter(comp_df, x='Training Time (s)', y='Accuracy', 
                     size='Parameters', color='Model',
                     title='Accuracy vs Training Time (Size = Parameters)',
                     hover_data=['Parameters'])
fig_eff.show()

print("\nComparison Results:")
print(comp_df)
Starting Architecture Comparison...
Training VGG16...
🔧 Transfer Learning Classifier initialized
   📊 Input shape: (224, 224, 3)
   🎯 GPU Available: 0
🔄 Preparing data from DataFrame...
   📁 Using default image directory: dataset/Flipkart/Images
   📋 Categories found: ['Baby Care', 'Beauty and Personal Care', 'Computers', 'Home Decor & Festive Needs', 'Home Furnishing', 'Kitchen & Dining', 'Watches']
   🎯 Number of classes: 7
   📊 Train samples: 630
   📊 Validation samples: 210
   📊 Test samples: 210
🔄 Preparing data using arrays method...
   🖼️ Loading 630 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 630 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   📊 Train set: (630, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Validation set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Test set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
🔧 Creating base model with VGG16...
   ✅ Base model created and compiled.
Model: "functional_6"
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_11 (InputLayer)     │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ vgg16 (Functional)              │ (None, 7, 7, 512)      │    14,714,688 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_3      │ (None, 512)            │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_13 (Dense)                │ (None, 1024)           │       525,312 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout_8 (Dropout)             │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_14 (Dense)                │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 15,247,175 (58.16 MB)
 Trainable params: 532,487 (2.03 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 14,714,688 (56.13 MB)
🔄 Training model: VGG16_comparison...
Epoch 1: val_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.81429, saving model to models/VGG16_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 29s 1071ms/step - accuracy: 0.6063 - loss: 3.5598 - val_accuracy: 0.8143 - val_loss: 2.2975
Epoch 2: val_accuracy improved from 0.81429 to 0.81905, saving model to models/VGG16_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 27s 1021ms/step - accuracy: 0.8413 - loss: 1.0504 - val_accuracy: 0.8190 - val_loss: 1.8052
Epoch 3: val_accuracy improved from 0.81905 to 0.82857, saving model to models/VGG16_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 983ms/step - accuracy: 0.8794 - loss: 0.7254 - val_accuracy: 0.8286 - val_loss: 1.9694
Epoch 4: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.82857
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 26s 981ms/step - accuracy: 0.9016 - loss: 0.4498 - val_accuracy: 0.8286 - val_loss: 1.8457
Epoch 4: early stopping
✅ Training completed in 111.69s
   📊 Test accuracy: 0.7952
   📊 ARI Score: 0.5808
VGG16 - Accuracy: 0.7952, Time: 111.69s

Training EfficientNetB0...
🔧 Transfer Learning Classifier initialized
   📊 Input shape: (224, 224, 3)
   🎯 GPU Available: 0
🔄 Preparing data from DataFrame...
   📁 Using default image directory: dataset/Flipkart/Images
   📋 Categories found: ['Baby Care', 'Beauty and Personal Care', 'Computers', 'Home Decor & Festive Needs', 'Home Furnishing', 'Kitchen & Dining', 'Watches']
   🎯 Number of classes: 7
   📊 Train samples: 630
   📊 Validation samples: 210
   📊 Test samples: 210
🔄 Preparing data using arrays method...
   🖼️ Loading 630 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 630 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   📊 Train set: (630, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Validation set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Test set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
🔧 Creating base model with EfficientNetB0...
   ✅ Base model created and compiled.
Model: "functional_7"
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_13 (InputLayer)     │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ efficientnetb0 (Functional)     │ (None, 7, 7, 1280)     │     4,049,571 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_4      │ (None, 1280)           │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_15 (Dense)                │ (None, 1024)           │     1,311,744 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout_9 (Dropout)             │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_16 (Dense)                │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 5,368,490 (20.48 MB)
 Trainable params: 1,318,919 (5.03 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 4,049,571 (15.45 MB)
🔄 Training model: EfficientNetB0_comparison...
Epoch 1: val_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.84762, saving model to models/EfficientNetB0_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 27s 1039ms/step - accuracy: 0.7476 - loss: 0.7843 - val_accuracy: 0.8476 - val_loss: 0.5946
Epoch 2: val_accuracy improved from 0.84762 to 0.85714, saving model to models/EfficientNetB0_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8s 303ms/step - accuracy: 0.9286 - loss: 0.2012 - val_accuracy: 0.8571 - val_loss: 0.5471
Epoch 3: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.85714
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8s 303ms/step - accuracy: 0.9841 - loss: 0.0765 - val_accuracy: 0.8571 - val_loss: 0.5305
Epoch 4: val_accuracy improved from 0.85714 to 0.86190, saving model to models/EfficientNetB0_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9s 312ms/step - accuracy: 0.9889 - loss: 0.0532 - val_accuracy: 0.8619 - val_loss: 0.5439
Epoch 5: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.86190
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8s 313ms/step - accuracy: 0.9921 - loss: 0.0337 - val_accuracy: 0.8571 - val_loss: 0.5289
✅ Training completed in 63.14s
   📊 Test accuracy: 0.8429
   📊 ARI Score: 0.6716
EfficientNetB0 - Accuracy: 0.8429, Time: 63.14s

Training MobileNetV3Small...
🔧 Transfer Learning Classifier initialized
   📊 Input shape: (224, 224, 3)
   🎯 GPU Available: 0
🔄 Preparing data from DataFrame...
   📁 Using default image directory: dataset/Flipkart/Images
   📋 Categories found: ['Baby Care', 'Beauty and Personal Care', 'Computers', 'Home Decor & Festive Needs', 'Home Furnishing', 'Kitchen & Dining', 'Watches']
   🎯 Number of classes: 7
   📊 Train samples: 630
   📊 Validation samples: 210
   📊 Test samples: 210
🔄 Preparing data using arrays method...
   🖼️ Loading 630 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 630 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   🖼️ Loading 210 images...
   ✅ Successfully loaded 210 images (0 failures)
   📊 Train set: (630, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Validation set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
   📊 Test set: (210, 224, 224, 3)
🔧 Creating base model with MobileNetV3Small...
   ✅ Base model created and compiled.
Model: "functional_8"
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Layer (type)                    ┃ Output Shape           ┃       Param # ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ input_layer_15 (InputLayer)     │ (None, 224, 224, 3)    │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ mobilenetv3small (Functional)   │ (None, 7, 7, 576)      │       939,120 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ global_average_pooling2d_5      │ (None, 576)            │             0 │
│ (GlobalAveragePooling2D)        │                        │               │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_17 (Dense)                │ (None, 1024)           │       590,848 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dropout_10 (Dropout)            │ (None, 1024)           │             0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼───────────────┤
│ dense_18 (Dense)                │ (None, 7)              │         7,175 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┴───────────────┘
 Total params: 1,537,143 (5.86 MB)
 Trainable params: 598,023 (2.28 MB)
 Non-trainable params: 939,120 (3.58 MB)
🔄 Training model: MobileNetV3Small_comparison...
Epoch 1: val_accuracy improved from -inf to 0.76667, saving model to models/MobileNetV3Small_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10s 402ms/step - accuracy: 0.6206 - loss: 1.0924 - val_accuracy: 0.7667 - val_loss: 0.8447
Epoch 2: val_accuracy improved from 0.76667 to 0.77619, saving model to models/MobileNetV3Small_comparison_best.keras
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2s 71ms/step - accuracy: 0.8365 - loss: 0.4546 - val_accuracy: 0.7762 - val_loss: 0.8259
Epoch 3: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.77619
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2s 74ms/step - accuracy: 0.8857 - loss: 0.3068 - val_accuracy: 0.7714 - val_loss: 0.8415
Epoch 4: val_accuracy did not improve from 0.77619
20/20 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2s 72ms/step - accuracy: 0.9111 - loss: 0.2418 - val_accuracy: 0.7762 - val_loss: 0.8581
Epoch 4: early stopping
WARNING:tensorflow:5 out of the last 15 calls to <function TensorFlowTrainer.make_predict_function.<locals>.one_step_on_data_distributed at 0x748634d6d080> triggered tf.function retracing. Tracing is expensive and the excessive number of tracings could be due to (1) creating @tf.function repeatedly in a loop, (2) passing tensors with different shapes, (3) passing Python objects instead of tensors. For (1), please define your @tf.function outside of the loop. For (2), @tf.function has reduce_retracing=True option that can avoid unnecessary retracing. For (3), please refer to https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/function#controlling_retracing and https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/function for  more details.
WARNING:tensorflow:5 out of the last 15 calls to <function TensorFlowTrainer.make_predict_function.<locals>.one_step_on_data_distributed at 0x748634d6d080> triggered tf.function retracing. Tracing is expensive and the excessive number of tracings could be due to (1) creating @tf.function repeatedly in a loop, (2) passing tensors with different shapes, (3) passing Python objects instead of tensors. For (1), please define your @tf.function outside of the loop. For (2), @tf.function has reduce_retracing=True option that can avoid unnecessary retracing. For (3), please refer to https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/function#controlling_retracing and https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/function for  more details.
✅ Training completed in 18.50s
   📊 Test accuracy: 0.8048
   📊 ARI Score: 0.5939
MobileNetV3Small - Accuracy: 0.8048, Time: 18.50s
Comparison Results:
              Model  Accuracy  Training Time (s)  Parameters  Efficiency
0             VGG16  0.795238         111.687915    15247175    0.007120
1    EfficientNetB0  0.842857          63.142937     5368490    0.013348
2  MobileNetV3Small  0.804762          18.498044     1537143    0.043505

8.5 Multimodal Fusion: Text + Image Late Fusion¶

Goal: Combine text embeddings and image features in a unified classifier.

What's Happening:

  • Concatenating text embeddings (USE) with image features (VGG16).
  • Training a fusion classifier on combined features.
  • Measuring improvement over single modality.
In [37]:
from src.classes.multimodal_analysis import MultimodalAnalysis

# Initialize multimodal analysis
multimodal = MultimodalAnalysis(classifier)

# Run fusion analysis (Text + Image)
# This reuses the best text model (USE) and image model (VGG16)
fusion_metrics = multimodal.evaluate_fusion(
    classifier.X_test,
    classifier.test_df['product_category'].values,
    classifier.test_df['description'].values
)
Extracting image features...
Extracting text features...
   📦 Using cached model directory: /app/cache/use_model
   ⏳ Loading Universal Sentence Encoder (this is a one-time download)...
   ✅ Model loaded successfully!
Training simple classifier on fused features (80/20 split of provided data)...

✓ Image-only (SVM on VGG features): 0.7143
✓ Fusion (Text+Image): 0.8571
✓ Fusion F1 Score: 0.8624
✓ Improvement: +20.0%

8.6 MLflow Tracking: Experiment Logging¶

Goal: Automatically track experiments, metrics, parameters, and models for reproducibility.

What's Happening:

  • Logging hyperparameters to MLflow.
  • Recording metrics (accuracy, loss, F1).
  • Registering best models for deployment.
In [38]:
from src.classes.mlflow_tracker import MLflowTracker
import mlflow

# Initialize MLflow tracker (without run_name)
mlflow_tracker = MLflowTracker(
    experiment_name="Mission6_Advanced_Improvements"
)

# Ensure any previous run is ended before starting a new one
if mlflow.active_run():
    print(f"⚠️ Ending active run: {mlflow.active_run().info.run_id}")
    mlflow.end_run()

# Log experiment with ACTUAL metrics from your analyses
print("📝 MLflow Tracking Demo:\n")

# Start a run with the run_name parameter
mlflow_tracker.start_run(run_name="Demo_Run2")

# Log parameters (use log_params, not log_parameters)
mlflow_tracker.log_params({
    'backbone': 'VGG16',
    'fusion_method': 'late',
    'multi_seed_count': multi_seed_trainer.num_seeds,
    'epochs': 5,
    'batch_size': 32
})

# Log ACTUAL metrics from earlier sections
# Use variables from previous cells if they exist, else default to 0
single_modality_acc = comp_df[comp_df['Model'] == 'VGG16']['Accuracy'].values[0] if 'comp_df' in locals() and not comp_df.empty else 0

# Use 'fusion_accuracy' instead of 'test_accuracy'
fusion_acc = fusion_metrics['fusion_accuracy'] if 'fusion_metrics' in locals() else 0

ms_mean = results['mean_test_accuracy'] if 'results' in locals() else 0
ms_std = results['std_test_accuracy'] if 'results' in locals() else 0

mlflow_tracker.log_metrics({
    'best_model_accuracy': single_modality_acc,
    'macro_f1': macro_f1 if 'macro_f1' in locals() else 0,
    'micro_f1': micro_f1 if 'micro_f1' in locals() else 0,
    'weighted_f1': weighted_f1 if 'weighted_f1' in locals() else 0,
    'fusion_test_accuracy': fusion_acc,
    'multi_seed_mean_test_accuracy': ms_mean,
    'multi_seed_std_test_accuracy': ms_std,
})

# Register model
mlflow_tracker.log_model(
    model=classifier.models[best_model_name],
    artifact_path='VGG16_Transfer_Learning'
)

# End the run
mlflow_tracker.end_run()

print("✓ Experiment logged to MLflow!")
print(f"  Logged metrics:")
print(f"    - Best Model Accuracy: {single_modality_acc:.4f}")
print(f"    - Macro F1: {macro_f1 if 'macro_f1' in locals() else 0:.4f}")
print(f"    - Fusion Test Accuracy: {fusion_acc:.4f}")
print(f"    - Multi-Seed Mean ± Std: {ms_mean:.4f} ± {ms_std:.4f}")
print("  Use 'mlflow ui' to view dashboard")
✅ MLflow experiment: Mission6_Advanced_Improvements
📝 MLflow Tracking Demo:

✅ Started MLflow run: 57753e234c034c5fb33104c6bf6bf1d7
✅ Logged 5 parameters
2025/12/28 23:40:48 WARNING mlflow.models.model: `artifact_path` is deprecated. Please use `name` instead.
2025/12/28 23:40:49 WARNING mlflow.keras.save: You are saving a Keras model without specifying model signature.
✅ Logged model to VGG16_Transfer_Learning
✅ Ended MLflow run: 57753e234c034c5fb33104c6bf6bf1d7
✓ Experiment logged to MLflow!
  Logged metrics:
    - Best Model Accuracy: 0.7952
    - Macro F1: 0.7857
    - Fusion Test Accuracy: 0.8571
    - Multi-Seed Mean ± Std: 0.8016 ± 0.0073
  Use 'mlflow ui' to view dashboard

Part 9: Conclusion¶

In this project, we explored various techniques for classifying e-commerce products based on their images and text descriptions.

Key Findings:¶

  1. Visual Analysis:

    • SIFT/ORB: Traditional feature descriptors provided a baseline but struggled with semantic understanding.
    • CNN (VGG16): Deep learning features significantly outperformed traditional methods, capturing high-level semantic concepts.
    • Architecture Comparison:
      • VGG16 provided a strong baseline.
      • EfficientNetB0 demonstrated superior efficiency, achieving competitive accuracy with fewer parameters.
      • MobileNetV3 offered the fastest training times, suitable for resource-constrained environments.
  2. Text Analysis:

    • Bag of Words / TF-IDF: Effective for keyword matching but lost semantic context.
    • Word Embeddings (USE/BERT): Captured semantic meaning, allowing for better clustering of similar products even with different wording.
  3. Multimodal Fusion:

    • Combining visual and textual features yielded the best results. The complementary nature of images (visual appearance) and text (specifications, usage) allowed the model to disambiguate difficult cases.

Future Work:¶

  • Fine-tuning: Unfreezing the top layers of the pre-trained models could further improve accuracy.
  • Data Augmentation: Increasing the dataset size with augmentations would help reduce overfitting.
  • Deployment: The MobileNetV3 model is a strong candidate for deployment on edge devices or a mobile app for real-time product classification.